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Middle Spotted Woodpecker

Dendrocoptes medius

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Picidae

The middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius) is a mainly European woodpecker belonging to the genus Dendrocoptes. Taxonomy The middle spotted woodpecker was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Picus medius. The specific epithet is Latin for "intermediate".

Distribution

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Netherlands · 49,042Germany · 25,095Belgium · 828Luxembourg · 412United Kingdom · 1FranceItalySpainSwitzerland